Four of Poland's most prominent historians query Daniel Blatman's "wild attack on Yad Vashem"
It is with disbelief, and even sorrow, that we read the angry article in Haaretz by Dr. Daniel Blatman, a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. According to Blatman, to quote the headline of his article, Israel's "Yad Vashem Teaches the Holocaust Like Totalitarian Countries Teach History."
As historians living and working in Poland, a country which is rapidly drifting toward authoritarianism, we cannot be silent. We all have worked with Yad Vashem for many years and have never seen anything to substantiate Blatman's wild assertions.
It is with disbelief, and even sorrow, that we read the angry article in Haaretz by Dr. Daniel Blatman, a professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. According to Blatman, to quote the headline of his article, Israel's "Yad Vashem Teaches the Holocaust Like Totalitarian Countries Teach History."
As historians living and working in Poland, a country which is rapidly drifting toward authoritarianism, we cannot be silent. We all have worked with Yad Vashem for many years and have never seen anything to substantiate Blatman's wild assertions. ...